REACTION
No sellers, no cashiers, only automatic cashiers and vigils: Sunday afternoon, in Angers, Casino opens a hypermarket without staff, a first in France.
The hypermarket in question, in the neighborhood of the Roseraie, has already opened for several months on Sunday morning with the staff. From now on, it will also be open on Sunday afternoons, from 1 pm to 9 pm, but without its usual employees.
Five people ... but no Casino employee
Most of the shelves will be accessible, except butchery, tide, bakery and spirits. There will still be a human presence, but limited to five people: a cashier, who will ensure the smooth operation of the automatic cash registers, and four security officers.
" We think that the Casino group has set specific criteria and will see if the experiment falls within their criteria "But these five people are not employees of Casino, for one simple reason: the law allows the food trade to make its staff work on Sunday, but not beyond 13 hours. Casino has found the solution: the team working this afternoon belongs to an outside company.
CGT fears a successful test in this hypermarket
If we do not know if the store will be busy Sunday afternoon, there will be at least some people in the parking lot: the unions have decided to organize a rally to denounce an approach. "We will not be if it will be generalized.It is thought that the Casino group has set specific criteria and will see if this [experiment, Ed] falls within their criteria," said Patrice Auvinet, secretary of the union CGT du trade of the region of Angers.
"The risk is that they then generalize to all of their hypermarkets," he continues, while the group has already conducted this experience in supermarkets for several months. "This hypermarket represents 40 jobs but at the national level, all groups together, it is 270,000 jobs are concentrated.We know very well that a test like that, once successful, it will not be limited to a store."